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Li N, Zhang LQ, Zhang J, Liu ZX, Huang B, Zhang SH, Nie P. Type I restriction-modification system and its resistance in electroporation efficiency in Flavobacterium columnare. Vet Microbiol 2012; 160:61-8. [PMID: 22655971 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.04.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2011] [Revised: 01/17/2012] [Accepted: 04/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Flavobacterium columnare, the causative agent of columnaris disease, infects freshwater fish worldwide. However, the pathogenicity of this bacterium is poorly understood due possibly to the lack of an efficient in-frame knockout technique. In order to improve electroporation efficiency, the type I restriction-modification system (R-M system) was cloned and its role in electroporation was examined in F. columnare G(4) strain. The complete sequence of type I R-M system in the bacterium, designated as Fcl, contains all three subunits of type I R-M system, named as fclM, fclS, fclR, respectively, with the identification of a hypothetical gene, fclX. Constitutive transcription of the three genes was observed in F. columnare G(4) by RT-PCR. The ORF of fclM and fclS was cloned into the plasmid pACYC184 and transformed into Escherichia coli TOP10. The resultant E. coli strain, designated as E. coli TOPmt, was transformed with the integrative plasmid pGL006 constructed for F. columnare G(4). The integrative plasmid was re-isolated from TOPmt and incubated with the lysate of F. columnare G(4). The re-isolated integrative plasmid, designated as pGL006', showed higher resistance than pGL006. With pGL006', the electroporation efficiency of the strain G(4) increased 2.6 times, while that of F. columnare G(18) was not obviously improved. Furthermore, a method to improve the electroporation efficiency of F. columnare G(4) was developed using the integrative plasmid methylated by E. coli TOPmt which contains the fclM and fclS gene of F. columnare G(4). Further analyses showed that the fcl gene cluster may be a unique type I R-M system in F. columnare G(4). It will be of significant interest to examine the composition and diversity of R-M systems in strains of F. columnare in order to set up a suitable genetic manipulation system for the bacterium.
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- N Li
- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province 430072, China
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Calisto BM, Pich OQ, Piñol J, Fita I, Querol E, Carpena X. Crystal structure of a putative type I restriction-modification S subunit from Mycoplasma genitalium. J Mol Biol 2005; 351:749-62. [PMID: 16038930 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.06.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2005] [Revised: 06/16/2005] [Accepted: 06/21/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The crystal structure of the eubacteria Mycoplasma genitalium ORF MG438 polypeptide, determined by multiple anomalous dispersion and refined at 2.3 A resolution, reveals the organization of S subunits from the Type I restriction and modification system. The structure consists of two globular domains, with about 150 residues each, separated by a pair of 40 residue long antiparallel alpha-helices. The globular domains correspond to the variable target recognition domains (TRDs), as previously defined for S subunits on sequence analysis, while the two helices correspond to the central (CR1) and C-terminal (CR2) conserved regions, respectively. The structure of the MG438 subunit presents an overall cyclic topology with an intramolecular 2-fold axis that superimposes the N and the C-half parts, each half containing a globular domain and a conserved helix. TRDs are found to be structurally related with the small domain of the Type II N6-adenine DNA MTase TaqI. These relationships together with the structural peculiarities of MG438, in particular the presence of the intramolecular quasi-symmetry, allow the proposal of a model for S subunits recognition of their DNA targets in agreement with previous experimental results. In the crystal, two subunits of MG438 related by a crystallographic 2-fold axis present a large contact area mainly involving the symmetric interactions of a cluster of exposed hydrophobic residues. Comparison with the recently reported structure of an S subunit from the archaea Methanococcus jannaschii highlights the structural features preserved despite a sequence identity below 20%, but also reveals important differences in the globular domains and in their disposition with respect to the conserved regions.
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- Bárbara M Calisto
- Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC), Parc Científic de Barcelona, Josep-Samitier 1-5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Chin V, Valinluck V, Magaki S, Ryu J. KpnBI is the prototype of a new family (IE) of bacterial type I restriction-modification system. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:e138. [PMID: 15475385 PMCID: PMC524312 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gnh134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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KpnBI is a restriction-modification (R-M) system recognized in the GM236 strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Here, the KpnBI modification genes were cloned into a plasmid using a modification expression screening method. The modification genes that consist of both hsdM (2631 bp) and hsdS (1344 bp) genes were identified on an 8.2 kb EcoRI chromosomal fragment. These two genes overlap by one base and share the same promoter located upstream of the hsdM gene. Using recently developed plasmid R-M tests and a computer program RM Search, the DNA recognition sequence for the KpnBI enzymes was identified as a new 8 nt sequence containing one degenerate base with a 6 nt spacer, CAAANNNNNNRTCA. From Dam methylation and HindIII sensitivity tests, the methylation loci were predicted to be the italicized third adenine in the 5' specific region and the adenine opposite the italicized thymine in the 3' specific region. Combined with previous sequence data for hsdR, we concluded that the KpnBI system is a typical type I R-M system. The deduced amino acid sequences of the three subunits of the KpnBI system show only limited homologies (25 to 33% identity) at best, to the four previously categorized type I families (IA, IB, IC, and ID). Furthermore, their identity scores to other uncharacterized putative genome type I sequences were 53% at maximum. Therefore, we propose that KpnBI is the prototype of a new 'type IE' family.
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- V Chin
- Division of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA
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Murray NE. Type I restriction systems: sophisticated molecular machines (a legacy of Bertani and Weigle). Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2000; 64:412-34. [PMID: 10839821 PMCID: PMC98998 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.64.2.412-434.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 318] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Restriction enzymes are well known as reagents widely used by molecular biologists for genetic manipulation and analysis, but these reagents represent only one class (type II) of a wider range of enzymes that recognize specific nucleotide sequences in DNA molecules and detect the provenance of the DNA on the basis of specific modifications to their target sequence. Type I restriction and modification (R-M) systems are complex; a single multifunctional enzyme can respond to the modification state of its target sequence with the alternative activities of modification or restriction. In the absence of DNA modification, a type I R-M enzyme behaves like a molecular motor, translocating vast stretches of DNA towards itself before eventually breaking the DNA molecule. These sophisticated enzymes are the focus of this review, which will emphasize those aspects that give insights into more general problems of molecular and microbial biology. Current molecular experiments explore target recognition, intramolecular communication, and enzyme activities, including DNA translocation. Type I R-M systems are notable for their ability to evolve new specificities, even in laboratory cultures. This observation raises the important question of how bacteria protect their chromosomes from destruction by newly acquired restriction specifities. Recent experiments demonstrate proteolytic mechanisms by which cells avoid DNA breakage by a type I R-M system whenever their chromosomal DNA acquires unmodified target sequences. Finally, the review will reflect the present impact of genomic sequences on a field that has previously derived information almost exclusively from the analysis of bacteria commonly studied in the laboratory.
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- N E Murray
- Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, United Kingdom.
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Rao DN, Saha S, Krishnamurthy V. ATP-dependent restriction enzymes. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2000; 64:1-63. [PMID: 10697406 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(00)64001-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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The phenomenon of restriction and modification (R-M) was first observed in the course of studies on bacteriophages in the early 1950s. It was only in the 1960s that work of Arber and colleagues provided a molecular explanation for the host specificity. DNA restriction and modification enzymes are responsible for the host-specific barriers to interstrain and interspecies transfer of genetic information that have been observed in a variety of bacterial cell types. R-M systems comprise an endonuclease and a methyltransferase activity. They serve to protect bacterial cells against bacteriophage infection, because incoming foreign DNA is specifically cleaved by the restriction enzyme if it contains the recognition sequence of the endonuclease. The DNA is protected from cleavage by a specific methylation within the recognition sequence, which is introduced by the methyltransferase. Classic R-M systems are now divided into three types on the basis of enzyme complexity, cofactor requirements, and position of DNA cleavage, although new systems are being discovered that do not fit readily into this classification. This review concentrates on multisubunit, multifunctional ATP-dependent restriction enzymes. A growing number of these enzymes are being subjected to biochemical and genetic studies that, when combined with ongoing structural analyses, promise to provide detailed models for mechanisms of DNA recognition and catalysis. It is now clear that DNA cleavage by these enzymes involves highly unusual modes of interaction between the enzymes and their substrates. These unique features of mechanism pose exciting questions and in addition have led to the suggestion that these enzymes may have biological functions beyond that of restriction and modification. The purpose of this review is to describe the exciting developments in our understanding of how the ATP-dependent restriction enzymes recognize specific DNA sequences and cleave or modify DNA.
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- D N Rao
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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Schouler C, Gautier M, Ehrlich SD, Chopin MC. Combinational variation of restriction modification specificities in Lactococcus lactis. Mol Microbiol 1998; 28:169-78. [PMID: 9593305 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00787.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Three genes coding for a type I R-M system related to the class C enzymes have been identified on the chromosome of Lactococcus lactis strain IL1403. In addition, plasmids were found that encode only the HsdS subunit that directs R-M specificity. The presence of these plasmids in IL1403 conferred a new R-M phenotype on the host, indicating that the plasmid-encoded HsdS is able to interact with the chromosomally encoded HsdR and HsdM subunits. Such combinational variation of type I R-M systems may facilitate the evolution of their specificity and thus reinforce bacterial resistance against invasive foreign unmethylated DNA.
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- C Schouler
- INRA, Laboratoire de Génétique Microbienne, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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Schouler C, Clier F, Lerayer AL, Ehrlich SD, Chopin MC. A type IC restriction-modification system in Lactococcus lactis. J Bacteriol 1998; 180:407-11. [PMID: 9440532 PMCID: PMC106898 DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.2.407-411.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Three genes coding for the endonuclease, methylase, and specificity subunits of a type I restriction-modification (R-M) system in the Lactococcus lactis plasmid pIL2614 have been characterized. Plasmid location, sequence homologies, and inactivation studies indicated that this R-M system is most probably of type IC.
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- C Schouler
- INRA, Laboratoire de Génétique Microbienne, CRJJ, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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Sturrock SS, Dryden DT. A prediction of the amino acids and structures involved in DNA recognition by type I DNA restriction and modification enzymes. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:3408-14. [PMID: 9254696 PMCID: PMC146914 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.17.3408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The S subunits of type I DNA restriction/modification enzymes are responsible for recognising the DNA target sequence for the enzyme. They contain two domains of approximately 150 amino acids, each of which is responsible for recognising one half of the bipartite asymmetric target. In the absence of any known tertiary structure for type I enzymes or recognisable DNA recognition motifs in the highly variable amino acid sequences of the S subunits, it has previously not been possible to predict which amino acids are responsible for sequence recognition. Using a combination of sequence alignment and secondary structure prediction methods to analyse the sequences of S subunits, we predict that all of the 51 known target recognition domains (TRDs) have the same tertiary structure. Furthermore, this structure is similar to the structure of the TRD of the C5-cytosine methyltransferase, Hha I, which recognises its DNA target via interactions with two short polypeptide loops and a beta strand. Our results predict the location of these sequence recognition structures within the TRDs of all type I S subunits.
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- S S Sturrock
- Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, The King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK
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Lee NS, Rutebuka O, Arakawa T, Bickle TA, Ryu J. KpnAI, a new type I restriction-modification system in Klebsiella pneumoniae. J Mol Biol 1997; 271:342-8. [PMID: 9268663 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The KpnAI restriction-modification (R-M) system has been identified in Klebsiella pneumoniae strain M5a1. The restriction gene of KpnAI was first cloned into pBR322 using an r-m+ M5a1 derivative and phage SBS for screening. Subsequently, an adjacent DNA fragment showing modification activity was cloned into pUC19. A total of 7.2 kb DNA sequencing data revealed three open reading frames, corresponding to hsdR, hsdM and hsdS genes of type I R-M systems. The predicted hsdR, hsdM and hsdS-coded peptides shared 95%, 98% and 44% identity, respectively, with the corresponding peptides of the recently identified StySBLI system, a prototype of the type ID family. This high homology suggests that KpnAI is also a member of the type ID family. The KpnAI system seems to be the first type I system identified in Klebsiella species.
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- N S Lee
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA
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Dryden DT, Cooper LP, Thorpe PH, Byron O. The in vitro assembly of the EcoKI type I DNA restriction/modification enzyme and its in vivo implications. Biochemistry 1997; 36:1065-76. [PMID: 9033396 DOI: 10.1021/bi9619435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Type I DNA restriction/modification enzymes protect the bacterial cell from viral infection by cleaving foreign DNA which lacks N6-adenine methylation within a target sequence and maintaining the methylation of the targets on the host chromosome. It has been noted that the genes specifying type I systems can be transferred to a new host lacking the appropriate, protective methylation without any adverse effect. The modification phenotype apparently appears before the restriction phenotype, but no evidence for transcriptional or translational control of the genes and the resultant phenotypes has been found. Type I enzymes contain three types of subunit, S for sequence recognition, M for DNA modification (methylation), and R for DNA restriction(cleavage), and can function solely as a M2S1 methylase or as a R2M2S1 bifunctional methylase/nuclease. We show that the methylase is not stable at the concentrations expected to exist in vivo, dissociating into free M subunit and M1S1, whereas the complete nuclease is a stable structure. The M1S1 form can bind the R subunit as effectively as the M2S1 methylase but possesses no activity; therefore, upon establishment of the system in a new host, we propose that most of the R subunit will initially be trapped in an inactive complex until the methylase has been able to modify and protect the host chromosome. We believe that the in vitro assembly pathway will reflect the in vivo situation, thus allowing the assembly process to at least partially explain the observations that the modification phenotype appears before the restriction phenotype upon establishment of a type I system in a new host cell.
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- D T Dryden
- Institute of Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
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